Casting a baleful eye on ad hominem attacks, hypocrisy, media bias, obfuscation, political correctness, revisionism, sophistry, special pleading, and spin, in the media and around the web, since 2006. Oh, and sharing our much-sought-after thoughts on books, movies, TV, and anything else we feel like writing about.

Meeting the Hollywood-Mandated Minimum Baldwin Requirement (MBR)

Don’t you love it when someone’s own argument disproves their case? I just think it’s downright decent when sophists do all the real work for you!

Case in point: Baldwin Clone #273-A (the “Alec” model) asserts that Dick Cheney is a terrorist. Of course, if this were true, then The Alec-Baldwin would now be cooling his heels (and most likely charging his testicles) in a dank basement somewhere, nervously awaiting his inevitable beheading. So the fact that this hasn’t happened, and won’t, both disproves the assertion, and shows up the vapid faux-courageous posturing that all Hollywood “liberals” love to indulge, so long as there is not the proverbial ice-cube’s chance of any repercussion save for further doting upon by an adoring MSM.

The Alec-Baldwin then goes on to claim that Cheney “terrorizes … innocent citizens here at home”. OK, show of hands: are you terrorized by Dick Cheney? Do you know anyone who is? I mean, beyond those who cultivate a paranoid victimhood because it looks great on their mental resume and boosts their sense of relevance and self-importance, but who in truth face nothing more fearful from the government than a reduced grant and the prospect of actually having to earn a wage commensurate with the value of their “work”? And, of course, beyond those with actual terrorist intent — and can’t we all agree that they should be made to feel at least a little bit nervous?